Pages

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Law enforcement never sleeps -- and in Chicago the Feds can hardly catch a nap

Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich is under arrest. It's the Rezko investigation, which led to much more, into a "political corruption crime spree." This includes trying to sell Barack Obama's seat on the U.S. Senate. And this, along with fresh evidence of attempted manipulation of the Chicago Tribune by Blagojevich, apparently triggered the arrest, in an otherwise long, arduous effort of collecting information, the kind for which Fitzgerald is famous. What I.O. has noted throughout the day follows.

11:30am CT, on TV - Patrick Fitzgerald is giving a press conference (C-SPAN link). He credits the Chicago Tribune, which found key information (in its face) held it from the public for awhile at the request of federal investigators, then published it Friday. This apparently led to even further evidence via bug or "wire," and wiretap. Instances of pay to play in state contracts are also in the complaint.On Obama - Fitzgerald said that the complaint makes no allegations about him, "and that's all I can say," an interesting way to put it. See the exact quote, below.

Fitzgerald also stressed, "I encourage people to talk to us... to let us get to the bottom of what has happened here," and later reiterated, "...we need people, in the public, to stand up and say 'enough.'"

Later - Talking Democrat heads are starting to play Blago as a nutty oddball, while Obama tried to stay away from it all, yada, yada, "aloof," yada.

2:21pm CT. on TV - Obama: "saddened and sobered" about Blago, but since there is an ongoing investigation, he does not want to comment. (Instead, he focuses on spreading Al Gore's ploy for man-made global socialism, now inconveniently relabeled "climate change," as if this is news to the Earth.) Reporters lunge. Obama: "...sad day... ...won't comment..." Oh, but he hasn't spoken with the Illinois Governor lately, not even about the Senate seat he has just vacated. Even though he by some reports, had Valerie Jarrett in mind for it.

5:19 CT - A video of the entire federal investigator interview is on C-SPAN.org. In the video, the first question and answer I find, specifically about Obama occurs at about 18:07. He is asked if he would address whether or not "Obama was aware that any of these things were taking place." Fitzgerald replied, "I'm not gonna speak for what the president-elect [sic] was aware of. We make no allegations that he is aware of anything and that's i-as simply as I can put it."

The second Obama Q&A occurs at 32:19. Fitzgerald was asked a question in an interesting way:

"You spoke before about if senator - you didn't know the awareness that senator - president-elect Barack Obama knew about this [I.O., he did not say this. The reporter seems to be grappling for words to put in Fitzgerald's mouth, prone to clear Obama.] so is it safe to say he has not been briefed and can you also tell us if any phone calls were made to president-elect Obama that you intercepted or to Rahm Emanuel?

Fitzgerald responded:

I'm not going to go down anything that's not in the complaint and what I simply said before is I'm not gonna -- I have enough trouble speaking for myself -- I'm never gonna try and speak in the voice of a president or a president-elect. So, I simply pointed out that if you look at the complaint, there is no allegation that the president-elect -- there's no reference in the complaint to any conversations involving the president-elect, or indicating that the president-elect was aware of it and that's all I can say.

There are many allegations in the federal complaint and it has taken a great deal of time for the FBI to collect all the evidence gained so far, in its ongoing work. One does wonder how much they have learned about Obama during this time and why Fitzgerald continues to plea to citizens in the know, to come clean.

PS, 12/11- I think I've seen Brando give that hug... or was it Pacino?

Free to Post

You are free to post original I.O. articles, written by Arlen Williams, on other sites, in their entirety or good context, linking to this site. New entries may not be frequent, but articles are meant to be significant. Some entries may become updated.

About Investigating Obama

The campaign for America to understand Barack Obama goes on. Facts are documented in the original articles, via Web links to valid sources. Factual dots are connected with historically informed reason. Original postings may not be frequent, but are intended for value. The views and statements expressed by Investigating Obama contributors, and in quotations and citations, and linked sites are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Investigating Obama and Arlen Williams.

If you want to know how this blog came to be, you may wish to read, "Investigating Obama?"Believe Barack Obama, when he says he wants to fundamentally transform America and to change the world.

Pray and work effectively, for an authentic America, for all Americans, and a free world. Consider what others have sacrificed for these.

PS: I know movement politics very well. Dedicated activists with shared motives, goals, and objectives coordinate their activities. They communicate regularly and operate together in their roles, or movements do not move. "History is the history of conspiracy," whether for good or ill.

The Word of God is Against Socialism and Marxist Lies

Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor -- it is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past.

Larry Grathwohl spoke of his work as a federal
investigator assigned to penetrate Bill Ayers' and Bernardine Dohrn's Weathermen -- the bombings and the deaths -- and a new possibility for prosecution. Also discussed: the entire Marxist network in America, right up to Barack Obama.

Notice about Comments

It has been my privilege that I.O. has received many excellent comments. However, I do not have time to address arguments posted by a few perpetual arguers.

If I.O. refers to you and you decide to comment, that is very fair and appreciated. Otherwise, posts which flout the evidence about Barack Obama provided by I.O. and are not found to be helpful, are subject to deletion.

"You are welcome." ;-) AW, I.O.

To the Hillary Voting PUMA's

America needs you. The overriding political contest is now between Americanists and anti-Americanists (Marxists, Islamists, racists, etc.).

Thank you for sticking to your guns (and religion ;-) in opposing the insurgency represented by Barack Obama and his comrades.

I hope you may accept that America was founded upon our Creator endowed rights and that chief among these is the Right to Life. I hope you will not be uncomfortable with those who point out some unfortunate similarities between HRC and BHO.

You are welcomed with open arms. Please help us keep them -- ammunition, too.

(And please don't be put on the spot. I may write a note down here for conventional party folk and independents, too.)

To Those of Deviant Views, Philosophy & Character:

To the Marxists, racists, and bigots who read this page, or who link to it -- to any with a un-American attitude of whatever kind -- you are welcome to read and you are welcome to repent of the sins of these defiled views. Seek the light, while it shines for you.

To Anyone Out There Who May Be Considering Bad Behavior

Do not be a fool. We still have a Constitution we must fight for, by constitutional means. In our nation, a criminal act for political motive is a further attack upon the Constitution and our own American principles. We may defend ourselves and our castles. We must not give away the moral high ground.

Repeal, Replace, Renew, Restore -- and Repent

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.”- Vladimir Lenin1,2,3

Individual freedom is the only freedom - I.O.Stand strong against the authoritarian and totalitarian tyrannies of Marxism, fascism, Islamism and every one-world government ideology -- whether from Moscow, Brussels, Rome, Mecca, Beijing, or New York.

Under God, We Sovereign American People stand for government only as We have mandated in our Constitution and for the overriding principles of our Declaration.Further, we must repent of sloth in allowing organized efforts, that are anti-life, anti-liberty, anti-property rights, and anti-American in their very denial of individual responsibility to God, to dominate American education, media, and now, finance, manufacturing and commerce.

Obama has followersI.O. has compatriots

Obama's Progenitor in Neo-Marxism, Saul Alinsky, on "Change"

There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary CHANGE must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward CHANGE among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year (in 1971).